To compute an MD5 signature for textual material, I would like to see the following applied: o trailing white space stripped o remaining whitespace reduced to single blanks o CR/LF ignored The justification for this is that something cut-n-pasted should still pass. No, we're not going to splice the TCP stream and insert cut-n-pasted text, but the above will make digests work on the widest range of interoperable platforms. What I'm saying is that cut-n-paste-ability isn't the goal, it represents a sample of the kind of mangling that might happen when the text crosses some boundaries. Interoperability is the goal. Make MD5 verification work cross-platform. -- Rick Troth <troth@casita.houston.tx.us>, Houston, Texas, USA http://casita.houston.tx.us/~troth/Received on Tuesday, 2 April 1996 15:43:26 EST
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